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A Big Bear couple and a ski resort employee who helped authorities end the massive manhunt for rampaging cop killer Christopher Dorner in February are expected to be offered a $100,000 reward from Los Angeles County.

The Board of Supervisors is expected Tuesday to consider and likely approve handing out $80,000 to James and Karen Reynolds and $20,000 to Daniel McGowan. The Reynoldses were tied up by Dorner in their Big Bear condo and held captive until he fled in their SUV. Karen Reynolds freed herself and called authorities on Feb. 12. McGowan was an employee at an area ski resort who spotted Dorner’s burning pickup truck on Feb. 7.

The Los Angeles County sheriff, counsel, chief executive officer and board executive officer comprised the committee that decided how the reward should be distributed.

The amount represents the county’s share of more than $1 million in rewards offered by several local governments and private individuals to facilitate the search for Dorner. Some agencies have withdrawn the reward offers because they were intended to lead to his live capture, not his death. Other agencies that continued to offer the rewards have similarly recommended that the Reynoldses get the bulk of the money. A three-judge panel in May recommended that they get 80 percent of the total rewards being offered, with 15 percent to McGowan and five percent to a tow-truck driver who spotted Dorner’s vehicle at a gas station on Feb. 7 and reported him to authorities.

The L.A. committee turned down applications from park ranger Rick Heltenbrake, who was carjacked by Dorner, and Mary and Eligio Ramirez, who spotted Dorner soon after the carjacking and reported him to authorities. Officials noted that before they reported their respective encounters with Dorner, authorities already knew where the fugitive was.

Heltenbrake has a pending lawsuit against the Los Angeles Police Department for also denying him any portion of the city’s reward. The committee, however, noted that when Heltenbrake notified authorities that Dorner had commandeered his pickup truck, he also reported hearing a volley of gunshots in the direction where Dorner had fled.

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“Therefore, although Mr. Heltenbrake contacted law enforcement, Dorner was already being pursued by law enforcement,” the committee wrote in its report. “Accordingly, Mr. Heltenbrake did not provide additional information that led to the capture of Mr. Dorner.”

The Reynoldses and Heltenbrake could not be reached Thursday for comment.

Dorner became the focus of the largest manhunt in the history of the Los Angeles Police Department, his former employer, when he threatened in a rambling “manifesto” on Facebook to target officers and their families in retaliation for his being fired in 2008.

Dorner ambushed the daughter of the retired LAPD captain who had acted as his lawyer before the tribunal that ultimately dismissed him for making false statements against his training officer. He killed both Monica Quan and her fiancé, Keith Lawrence, in the parking structure of their condominium complex in Irvine on Feb. 3

Dorner also killed Riverside County Police Officer Michael Crain and San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Deputy Jeremiah Mackay, and seriously wounded their respective partners, Andrew Tachias and Alex Collins, when they encountered him in separate incidents during the 10-day manhunt.

Tachias is now paralyzed from the neck down.

In their letter to the board made public Thursday, the reward committee noted it was Ski Summit resort worker McGowan who discovered the truck that Dorner had set on fire and abandoned in Big Bear.

Before that, authorities were searching for the fugitive as far away as Mexico.

“The information provided by Mr. McGowan gave law enforcement their first solid evidence of the status of Mr. Dorner in the Big Bear Lake area,” the committee concluded.

The bulk of the reward, however, will go to the Reynoldses, who arrived at their Big Bear cabin to find Dorner hiding inside.

He held them at gunpoint, tied them up, and stole their SUV. Karen Reynolds managed to escape and call 9-1-1.

“Approximately 23 minutes following their report, law enforcement positively identified the vehicle being driven by Dorner and gave chase,” the committee noted.

After Dorner crashed the SUV, the Ramirezes saw him fleeing and told authorities. The reward committee, however, noted that authorities were already in hot pursuit of Dorner at the time.

Once cornered in a cabin, Dorner committed suicide by putting a bullet through his head. Attempts by law enforcement to “smoke him out” of his hiding place caused a fire that destroyed the building and charred his remains.

The reward money will come out of the Board’s discretionary funds, with each supervisor contributing $20,000.